Re: For Loop problem
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- Subject: [mg65611] Re: For Loop problem
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, lst = Table[i, {i, 2040, 2060}]; If[# > 2048, # - 2048, # + 2048] & /@ lst and the loop is gone . Regards Jens "Rob" <rob at piovere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:e1cup6$emo$1 at smc.vnet.net... | I've got to manipulate some signed 12bit integer numbers from a file and | apparently Mathematica only handles 8 and 16 bit signed numbers | (probably for a very good reason). So I bring them in as 16 bits (and | they're stored that way with a leading zero nibble) and then I have to | do the following to make sense of them. I really don't know why this | code works but it does. | | For[i = 1, i < Length[y], i++, If[y[[i]] > 2048, y[[i]] = | y[[i]] - 2048, y[[i]] = y[[i]] + 2048]]; | | So to my question: once again I had to resort to a For loop to pull this | off and I know this is a no-no. But I'm so clueless about Mathematica | that I've never come up with a more sophisticated method after a year or | so of thinking about it. Can someone help (as they usually can)? | | Thanks, Rob |